Beef and Broccoli

An easy recipe for Beef and Broccoli – a popular Chinese take-out dish.

I have had this recipe for some time now, and have been wanting to try it, but for some reason, it has always scared me away. I think it is because you are using beef that is not ground – and usually the only beef I cook with is ground. I leave the rest of it to Josh to bbq. But I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight after reading so many food blogs, I decided to give it a try. Now I don’t know why I was so scared – this was really simple!! I adapted it from a recipe I found online, and I liked the changes I made. Josh loved this, and cleaned his plate. I will do a few things differently next time, but there definitely will be a next time!

The sauce didn’t thicken up as quickly as I would have liked for it to, causing the broccoli to lose it’s bright color. I probably would add a bit more cornstarch so that it will thicken faster. MORE BROCCOLI – maybe because I really like broccoli, but 4 cups was not enough for this amount of sauce and beef. And beware, this is quite saucy – I doubled the amount of sauce from the original recipe – so if you don’t like it really saucy, you may want to cut back a bit. I can honestly say I don’t remember what type of beef I bought (and I didn’t want to dig through the trash to find out) but it worked. I think most cuts would work. I would probably cut the beef into smaller, bite size pieces instead of strips next time.

OMG…this was delicious!!! I added more broccoli like everyone suggested and it was awesome (wait, let me add my Boston accent – “Wicked Awesome!!”) My picky daughter loved it! Will definitely make this many times over.

I really miss this plate since Chinese restaurants here in Greece don’t make it. Whenever I ordered Chinese food when I was in the sates 8 times out of 9 I would pick beef of broccoli. Yet another food on the to cook list.